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werwas

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[SOLVED] Can I somehow lock my keyboard?

I run Arch (with X11 and i3 window manger) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T450.

Here's the situation:
I have a cat who likes to walk on my keyboard while I'm watching movies/video chatting. I would like to be able to somehow "turn off" most of the keys on my keyboard so that she doesn't interrupt things. So I am imagining a solution to this problem that looks like an i3 keybinding like $mod+Del+Esc that toggles disabling/enabling x11 from receiving input from all keys (and perhaps the mouse) except those three.

Does anyone have an idea of how this could work?

Okay, solved it. The screen-lock program xtrlock is exactly what I need:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 4/xtrlock/

Last edited by werwas (2018-04-11 19:10:48)

ugjka

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I somehow lock my keyboard?

give your cat xanax

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I somehow lock my keyboard?

give your cat xanax

$ echo xanax | cat

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